by Fox Doucette Tonight's show features two of the more polarizing Hall of Fame figures in boxing, guys who have their fans who think they're all-time greats and their detractors who think they're massively overrated. In the main event, Joe Calzaghe, who was accused more than once of never fighting the best fighters (since apparently Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. are … [Read more...]
What If: One Champ Per Weight, Part 3: The Gods Keep Track
by Fox Doucette The “sports gods” are an odd concept. Even a church-going Christian will seemingly violate the First Commandment when talking about athletic competition. Football gods, basketball gods, boxing gods...they are a representation of chance, of the arbiters of random events and their outcome, the judge and jury who decide whether Schrodinger's Cat lives or … [Read more...]